New action WakeUpOnLan allows waking up a computer on the LAN, if they have such an option in their BIOS.

New action GetMACAdress return MAC address of computer in local network. Computers must have the active NetBIOS protocol in their network preferences.

New action MessageToTCPIPClient
allows you to send messages back to computer-sender of message in the
TCP/IP Listener. E.g. it's possible to send message back to the telnet
session on another computer or in the PHP script on your website.

Event TCP/IP Listener now return RemoteIP and RemotePort. After analysis of the values it's possible to permit running of task or not.

Event TCP/IP Listener now has the option to listen to packets only on selected IP address of local computer.

Action list now can be extended via buttons in the list title. This option allows you to see all action parameters.

Action CheckMail now returns values MessFrom and MessTo.

Fixed error with enabling/disabling of task with TCP/IP Listener event.

Action LaunchedProcessCount can
return number of executed processes by specifying the file mask. E.g.
it's possible to know how many processes ran with file mask *.exe or
win*.exe .

In the window “Parameter selection” it's possible now to select variables.

In the action CheckMail , it is now
possible to select how to save email attachments when files already
exist in the directory: overwrite existing, save with unique file name
or don't save.

Action SendMail can now send several
files in the attachment. Files can be specified by files list
(separated by semicolon) or by files mask (e.g. *.txt;*.doc).

Added new action to work with date and time: GetDateTime , GetDateTimeBetween . Using this action, it's possible to delete all files in a specified folder that are 2 weeks old (Deleting/Purging old files).

New action UnZip , support file types: zip, gzip, cab.

In the actions Zip and Backup it's possible now to select compression level.

Action Zip now supports relative and absolute paths.

It's possible now to setup internal task variable from
the command line. For example, you can create a task that creates a
shortcut on the desktop and in the Target field, add text at the end: -
set myvar1="hello1" set var2="hello friend". If any action of this task
will contain variable value {MYVAR1}, then this variable will be
replaced by value from command line hello1.

xStarter now has the option in the program Preferences
to select the folder where to store sections with tasks and program log
files.

An option has been added to check file corruption
errors during FTP operations – option Check XCRC. This option is
supported by a limited number of FTP servers.

An error has been fixed in the statement If . Now all comparisons are being processed in the types of compared variables.

Fixed error with action FtpSyncUpload, it was not previously coping files in binary mode.

NTEventLogMessage action - this action allows to write your own messages in the NT Event log.

MessageViaTCPIP - Now it's possible
to send some strings to TCP/IP host, e.g. to xStarter installed on
another network computer or to any other program what can process this
data.

Now there are new events available by which tasks can be launched: TCP/IP socket listener.
With this event it's now possible to run tasks then xStarter receives
commands or simple strings from another programs, devices, computers.
For example: it's now possible to run tasks through commands from your
website.

All FTP related actions are now added with "Passive mode" option for passive FTP connections.

FTPSyncDownload action now contain
option "Copy only files created or modified during last N days". It can
be useful for coping only recent files.

Synchronization action provides a powerful option to
"Copy only recent files". It also allows to not copying files in the
target folder if files are newer on the source folder. For example It
can be used, for synchronizing desktop and laptop computers and not
overwriting newer files on another side.

Also there are new possibility to copy only new or
changed files in third folder called as “Differences dir”. It can be
useful for sending to your customers only changed or new files from
last sending.

New fields "CC" and "BCC" in the action SendEmail.

Previously xStarter action WindowCommand could not close some application windows (e.g. Internet Explorer) due to a Microsoft Windowslimitation. Now WindowCommand action has an added option to "Terminate application if unable to close window" to overcome this limitation.

It's now possible to terminate working task in the UI, to launch only one action from the actions list.

This new version now provides function to duplicate
any action in the task (but not statement) and Drag&Drop function
which can be used to copy action into another tasks.